I have programmed a casing length calculator and thought it might be useful to you. It tells you what length of casing to use for a given weight of sausagemeat. If you read this spuddy, and think it worth it, perhaps you would like to host it for me.

That's brilliant it'll be really useful - I always soak far too much casing 'cos I never know how much i'll use - this will actually save me money.Worked OK in Vista for me. Only thing was that it downloaded as casing without the .exe on the end of the filename.Thanks again.

Hey Oddley - welcome back. What backwater did they send you to that you had no internet access

About your program - very useful indeed. Do you think it might be possible to add a calibration for different diameters of casing - i.e. hogs can range from 32-38mm (or more). Sheeps can be 18-22 or so etc.

The program can be made to what I want it too. With enough time. You can experiment yourself, with different casing sizes, and enter different lengths in the settings box on the program, to do what you want.

Hi everyone, I've been lurking for a while now and trying to inwardly digest all of the information that's here (and as you all know there's plenty of it!). Anyway, on to the reason for posting:

Hi Oddley: I'm just about to make a 3kg batch of sausages and some chorizo today and I thought I'd use your calculator. I've noticed a discrepancy in the "Metres" figure. If I for instance enter 3000g in the "Mix weight" field and choose "Hog Casing" I get the following figures:

Centimetres = 504
Metres = 5,4
Inches = 198
Feet & Inches = 16' 6"

If you notice 504cm doesn't equal 5.4m, it should be 5.04m. However, if I enter 1000g I get the following figures:

Centimetres = 168
Metres = 1,68
Inches = 66
Feet & Inches = 5' 6"

Which is a bit odd because the cm and metre figures are equivalent! I obviously don't know what you used to write your program but I would hazard a guess that it's something to do with the way the metres value string is assembled. It looks to me as if it's truncating any leading zeroes in the decimal part of the value (does that make sense?).